Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger

[Tony Edwards]

I never knew it was ok to break a child’s fingers if they’re cheating

**** yeah.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

It that allowed in chess?

It's the new fingering rule.

 

[200sols]

Googles is sentient and this one is breaking fingers. Whatever next

 

[robfosters]

Googles is sentient and this one is breaking fingers. Whatever next

Coming home and finding them in bed with your missus

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

"I must break you" - Robot Arm (Probably)

 

[DXP55]

Has to be the best thread this week. Keep them coming

 

[Terminal_Boy]

You got to wonder when they design the mechanism that picks up the cheese pieces, they must work out how much force it needs…

Of course, having a human and an industrial robot operating in the same space at the same time is illegal in all sensible countries for this very reason.

 

[Werewolf]

You got to wonder when they design the mechanism that picks up the chess pieces, they must work out how much force it needs…

It looks like they were possibly using a standard off the shelf robotic arm, so unless they fitted additional sensors and hard limiters it could have been applying it's full possible level of force/didn't stop when it felt resistance.

[edit]
The video looks like adults couldn't get it to move once it pressed down on the kids finger, which says a lot about the lack of safety features/emergency cut offs.

 

[Mysterae_]

Netflix's new min-series, "The Child's Gambit" looks a bit crap.

 

[Bubo]

Kid sacrificed a minor piece..... of his finger.

 

[Trifid]

They said the robot was 'armless. They were wrong.

 

[Karl]

Poor little guy.

 

[Efour]

Now that's what I call a crushing endgame..
“Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is breaking child finger.”
I quote the legend Kasparov.

 

[Fluffybob]

Kid wasn't call John Connor by any chance ?

 

[fatiain]

C'mon Russia, Asimov didn't come up with those three laws for you to not put them in your chess-bot.

 

[The Funktopus]

Like the miner’s joke from Chernobyl.

“What’s as a big as a house, burns 20 litres of fuel per hour, belches noise and smoke and cuts an apple into 3 pieces?…A Soviet machine designed to cut an apple into 4 pieces!”

 

[Trig]

Well isn't that just an in-depth article..